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A developer by the name of YQ just finished the rest of the
Ethereum roadmap and shipped it as a client. I guess we’re done here! The 5+ year long roadmap, completed in just a few weeks thanks to AI! 😄
“Two weeks ago I made a bet with @VitalikButerin that one person could agentic-code an @ethereum client targeting the 2030+ roadmap.
So I built ETH2030.
702K lines of Go. 65 roadmap items. Syncs with mainnet.”

Obviously, this will not be going into production, and is really just a Proof of Concept rather than a full-production client, but the PoC really shows that we need to update what we think about the Ethereum roadmap timelines, and the steps it takes to get there.
Vitalik responded to YQ's effort, saying it was "quite an impressive experiment" while flagging the obvious caveat - that something built in two weeks without finalized EIPs "almost certainly" contains critical bugs and incomplete implementations.
But the core point is about trajectory:
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